They leaned back against the couch cushions once more. All was right with the world. Sue opened, “Well, that was fun.” Jude seconded, “Definitely.” I just smiled at one, then the other. And sat back as far as I could to be part of the conversation that was coming. And waited. Sal sat forward on her end of the couch and asked, “Now, why did you want us to work that out? Opaque force balls? And by the way, we had to make them one-way opaque so that we could see stuff incoming.” Jude sat forward as well. “And we have a lot to clean up down there. I’ve never seen something that wrecked.” Sal added, “Ben has said that we need a larger ‘work space’ for ‘spell casting’ as he calls it. Said there was a natural void quite a bit down, but he had to test for ‘structural integrity’ and reinforce

